The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. New TEM grids coated with ultrathin amorphous Al 2 O 3 films have been developed using atomic layer deposition technique. The amorphous Al 2 O 3 films can withstand temperatures over 600 • C in air and 900 • C in vacuum when the thickness of the Al 2 O 3 film is 2 nm, and up to...

The bimetallic nanothermites, composed often of the core-shell nanoparticles or the nano-scale multilayers, provide a direct interface between two reactive metals and therefore facilitate the thermite reaction without generating excessive gases. This characteristic is extremely important for wire or material joining applications. In this study we investigated the energetic properties and diffus...

Controlling the self-assembly of nanoparticles in higher-order structures and guiding their deposition in defi ned arrays on surfaces are key challenges in nanoscience and important e.g. for applications in diagnosis and sensing. [ 1 , 2 ] To make ever more complex nanosystems, it is desirable to control (or “trigger”) nanoparticle assembly upon application of a specifi c stimulus. Mirkin et al...

This article contains the dataset referring to the article "Study of the effect of the dispersion of functionalized nanoparticles TiO2 with photocatalytic activity in LDPE" (Jahell et al., 2016) [1]. It includes the FT-IR data of the functionalized nanoparticles of TiO2 with Hexadecyltrimethoxysilane in different degrees of functionalization, thermogravimetric analysis, distribution and particl...

Upconversion Nanoparticles. Phonon-engineered, lanthanide-doped upconverting nanoparticles with the lowest phonon energies available to date are reported by Emory M. Chan et al. in their Communication (e202212549).

In this paper, convection heat transfer of Al2O3-water nanofluid turbulent flow through internally ribbed tubes with different rib shapes (rectangular, trapezoidal and semi-circular) is numerically investigated. For each rib shape, the optimum geometric ratio and volume fraction were calculated using entropy generation minimization technique. The governing equations in...

Previous results on the use of joint entropy for detection of targeted nanoparticles accumulating in the neovasculature of MDA435 tumors [Fig. 7 of M. S. Hughes et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 133, 283-300 (2013)] are extended, with sensitivity improving by nearly another factor of 2. This result is obtained using a "quasi-optimal" reference waveform in the computation of the joint entropy imaging ...

This study investigates the effects of micro- and nano-sized SiC powder on the rheological behavior of Al based feedstocks for powder injection molding (PIM).  Different compositions of Al feedstocks with additions of micro and nano-SiC powder were prepared and their rheological properties were measured with a rotational rheometer. The effects of SiC content and shear rate were investigated and...

Ligand molecules tethered on the surface of inorganic nanoparticles play an important role in the synthesis and application of nanoparticles due to their dramatic influence over surface properties. Tailoring of nanoparticle surfaces with ligands is therefore a key factor for stabilizing nanoparticles in various solvents as well as for controlling hierarchical assembly of nanoparticles to give f...

Enhanced surface diffusion at the growth temperature of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) can cause coarsening of metal catalysts. By balancing the nominal thickness and surface diffusion length of metals, metal nanoparticles of desirable size are expected to form spontaneously under the SWNTs growth conditions. Our combinatorial method, using a library of nominally 0.001to 1-nm-thick sput...